Ayoade on Ayoade: A Cinematic Odyssey

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Ayoade's interviews are totally ridiculous, however, and this is not a book to read if you want to learn anything purely factual about him. Ayoade's second feature film, the black comedy thriller The Double, was based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky's 1846 novella The Double; it was written by Ayoade and Avi Korine [58] and stars Jesse Eisenberg and Mia Wasikowska. In 2001, he won the Perrier Comedy Award for co-writing and performing in Garth Marenghi's Netherhead, the sequel to Fright Knight. Along the way, they’ll unlock wisdom for those of us navigating our own coupledoms, and for those still seeking their perfect match. He can provide the usual satiric short essays, that might have been seen before and might not, which provide glimpses of the stereotypic life in Hollywood, but the book never rises beyond that.

First, Ayoade is incredibly self-deprecating, even observing that "Ayoade is so terrified of criticism that he prefers to criticize himself (often mid-sentence, and in parentheses) before the reader has a chance to demur.They make them at the dinner table, or in a meeting room, where personal history, your own unique view of the world, ego, pride, marketing, and odd incentives are scrambled together. The fig tree is there, too, when war breaks out, when the capital is reduced to ashes and rubble, when the teenagers vanish.

He recounts his first memories of being in the womb and thinking that his birth would make a good scene in a movie.

As an actor he is best known for his roles as Dean Learner in Garth Marenghi's Darkplace and Maurice Moss in the Emmy Award-winning The IT Crowd, for which we was awarded a BAFTA as Best Performance in a Comedy. By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. Ayoade voiced a villainous snowman in several episodes of the 2015 reboot of the animated series Danger Mouse. Ayoade on Ayoade is a satirical look at director’s and film culture as presented by comedian, actor, and director Richard Ayoade. We use cookies to give you the best possible experience on our site, provide personalised content and advertising, analyse our traffic, and ensure you see more of what you love.

It will also be more of an overall book review than solely focusing on the index as the whole book is so, well, odd. His style of presenting has been described as being "a more cerebral and intense version" of his IT Crowd character, Maurice Moss. Request Rejected This page is unavailable due to either geographic restrictions or other restrictions in place at this time. The discussions of the films take many different formats in the book, featuring notes on the art of adaptation (‘Screenplays tend to use bigger-sized paper than novels’, p. It's a very competent spoof, too – one showing that he can put pen to paper and come up with something clever enough, enjoyable and witty and at times sprightly, and very well sustained.Ayoade plays Ayoade, Ayoade, and countless other characters while Eisenberg pops in to blast dirtbag-manic energy throughout. I was disappointed with this book if I'm honest - I'm a huge fan of Richard Ayoade and had high expectations for this book. I realise it's supposed to be a spoof and the endless footnotes another witty idiosyncrasy, but my God it wore thin. One Thursday lunchtime the Earth gets unexpectedly demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass. Best-selling author Mark Manson brings his signature no-nonsense wisdom back to the subject he started his career covering: relationships.